Category: Thoughts for the Day

As I have mentioned regularly since the Hamas attack on October 7, the Israeli response was eventually going to be problematic for the U.S as the death toll mounted in …

Down to Brighton yesterday. Back to Petoskey today. In between, we watched my grandson play a flag football game, made Christmas cookies with our four grandchildren plus Katy and Brad …

We are paying them to do their job, aren’t we?  The U.S. House has followed the playbook of the Democratic led Michigan legislature.  Let’s go home for an extended holiday …

I went on a date with Leah tonight to a place called the Malted Vinyl in Petoskey. It is a lounge that serves drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), micro brews, and …

Inflation went down last month which led to the Feds leaving interest rates unchanged, but announcing they plan on dropping interest rates three times in the next year.  This is …

Per the NY Times today, Claudine Gay will stay on as president of Harvard University, the school’s governing board announced on Tuesday.  The members of the board, the Harvard Corporation, …

Leave it to Mitch Albom of the Detroit Free Press to put things in perspective. Here are excerpts from his article Sunday on the antisemitism hearings last week in the …

Hunter, Hunter, Hunter.  How can you not pay your taxes?  Did you really think you were going to get away with it?  You are the son of a U.S. Senator, …

Finally!!!!! Senator Tommy Tuberville, Republican of Alabama, on Tuesday lifted his blockade of nearly all the military promotions he had delayed for almost a year in protest of a Pentagon …

It has been an exhausting 36 hours, so I am going freestyle tonight.  Everything is off the top of my head.  After staying up past midnight to watch the Michigan/Iowa …